The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-10
Notes and Opinions.

Cleveland last week, but condemned
civil service reform.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is going to
follow President Johnson's example
and " swing around the circle"
"Mr. Curtis" says an exchange,
"judges all men except the President
by their deeds rather than by their
professions"
MoRMoNIsM has lost its head, but it
is kind of serpent that lives on just
as we'll after its head has been cut off.
Salem Times.
GOLD KENTUCK has given the
democrats great scare and feeling
of apprehension about the result next
year. They don't like to discuss it.
INDIANA has a splendid man for
President in the person of Ben. Har-
rison. Ohio would support him cheer
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Doc days are here. The dog that
only take it away with him, and no
questions asked. Bangor Commercial.
THE western editor who boosted of
the important contributions made by
the great and growing West to the little
East forgot to mention the potato-bug.
A TRAMP with four pairs of trousers
on was arrested in New York the other
day. So it appears that it is unlawful
for man to wear more than one pair
of trousers at one time.
FRIENDS of the President are reti-
cent regarding George William Curtis
recent expressions of disappointment
with the administration, but hint that
Curtis was not quite just.
MY boy, learn to do something or
make something better than anybody
else can do or make it and you will
never have to tramp about the world in
search of job.-SprinQfeld Union.
THE contestants in lawsuit in Il
linois have been wrangling forty-two
years and have spent $1,000 for the
possession of pig valued at So The
pigs case was tried for lard long ago.
THE Hartford Post predicts an early
fall because the crickets have come alb
normally soon and all vegetation is
maturing so rapidly. 1t expects to ex-
perience the last of the heated term
this month.
KENTUCKY democrats say that one
cause for the loss of the democratic
majority in that state is the revolt of a
large faction of the democracy which
favors protection against the free-trade
domination of Watterson and Beck.
To be truly national, in mugwump
and democratic sense, is to be dumb to
presidential mistakes or political crimes
for fear of offending our touchy south
ern brother. Republicans do not in
tend to be parties to the suicide of
American anhood.-BoSton Traveller.
THE news flashed through the cable
that Blaine danced Scotch reel on the
green to the lively music of the bag
pipes has sent cold chill down the
spinal column of the democracy. Fancy
"Grover c." tripping the light fan
tastic.-Cincinnah Commercial Gazette.
ONE Of the civil service rules laid
down by the great reformer, Grover
Cleveland, was that no more than one
member of family should be employed
in the departments at Washington, but
there is not department where there
are not numerous cases which con-
travene the rule.
THE worst of the criminal classes are
not those who forge, rob and murder,
but the men who adulterate the food
and drink of the people. They produce
death and sickness, entailing lingering
illness upon thousands and constitu-
tional hereditary diseases upon unborn
generations.-W Washington National Re
publican.
THE Woodstock Standard comments
upon the fact that the New York I'ri-
bme is ignoring Robert Il. Lincoln as a
possible presidential candidate. The
Tribune probably knows much better
than the Standard that this talk of
Lincoln will amount to nothing and
that it is simply waste of space to
keep it going.
IF the President should wear red
flannel shirts and green trousers for
the remainder of his term would any
mugwump have the hardihood to pro-
nounce such course a violation of
good taste? Is it not probable that
several mugwump organs would ad-
wise all patriotic people to do the same
thing?-Journdl.
WHAT the mass of republicans want
is the strongest possible nomination in
1888, and that problem will solve itself
as the time approaches. 1t is not a
case for struggle, but for the guidance
of clear public opinion, and that popu-
lar sentiment, making itself unmis-
takably plain, will settle it in due or
der.-Philadelphia Press.
KENTUCKY stands for sixty-four
electoral votes at the South, Changes